Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaido and the Shaping of Ainu Identity

Hiwasaki, Lisa

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“…The concern among scholars was that people in host destinations may lose their cultural identity as a result of tourism. Recent studies, however, have suggested that tourism can lead to a renaissance of cultural attributes or the re-creation of ethnicity by instilling new pride in local communities (Chow, 2005;Hiwasaki, 2000;Wall & Xie, 2005;Yang & Wall, 2009). Tourism can help minority people to maintain or reinforce their identity through the promotion of minority cultures, arts, performances and festivals (Jamison, 1999;Li, 2003;Picard, 2008;Zeitler, 2009).…”

Section: Tourism and Identitymentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Identity has been identified as playing a critical role in nation-building, cultural revival and tourism development (Palmer, 2005). As tourism has become one of the world's major economic forces, researcher interest in examining the interaction between identity and tourism is growing (Ballesteros & Ramirez, 2007;Hiwasaki, 2000;MarineRoig, 2011;Olivera, 2005;Ooi, 2003;Stronza, 2008;Wherry, 2006;Yoshumura, 2007).…”

Section: Tourism and Identitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…However, there has been limited consideration of the relationships between ethnic identity and tourism development (Callahan, 1998;Hiwasaki, 2000). Recent studies have revealed that cultural identities play an important role in tourism which places stress on the establishment or retention of a cohesive ethnic identity (Walsh & Swain, 2004;Xie & Wall, 2002;Yang & Wall, 2009).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Ethnic Tourism and Minority Identity: Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

Yang

2013

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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Ethnic tourism has been employed as a development strategy in many minority communities where options for development are often limited. This research explores the impacts of ethnic tourism development on minority people and their identities in an ethnic community in Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Findings reveal that active involvement in tourism and commercialization of Mosuo cultural traditions have resulted in the consolidation of a collective Mosuo identity for economic, social and cultural purposes. Local villagers actively express their identity and re-create their dress, dances and religion to satisfy tourists' desires for authenticity. Tourism has reinforced elements of Mosuo culture, giving it new prestige in the Han-dominated society, but it has also brought numerous changes to Mosuo communities. It is argued that the preservation of minority culture and identity should be enhanced if long-term sustainable development of tourism is to occur and the evolving nature of ethnic identity is to be recognized.

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Section: Tourism and Identitymentioning

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Ethnic Tourism and Minority Identity: Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

Yang

2013

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Lisa Hiwasaki (2000) wrote about Ainu tourism as having both negative and positive consequences for Ainu cultural identity. Similarly, some of the dictionaries of Ainu languages might have been compiled in the interest of subjugating or controlling Ainu, but at the same time they also contributed positively to the possibilities for Ainu to establish an indigenous Ainu nation built on ideas of Ainu language and history.…”

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Re-vitalizing an indigenous language: Dictionaries of Ainu languages in Japan, 1625–2013

Hansen¹

2014

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The re-vitalization of indigenous languages depends on political and legal support and the implementation of language rights depends on knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures of the individual languages. Throughout the nineteenth century world, compilers of dictionaries adapted indigenous languages to match standards defined in nation-building and, thereby, enabled latent possibilities for indigenous populations to re-vitalize their languages in connection with the United Nations Year for Indigenous Peoples in 1993, and the first United Nations Decade for Indigenous Peoples, 1995-2004. This article focuses on dictionaries of the languages of the Ainu populations in the borderlands between the nation-states Japan and Russia. The main argument is that the Ainu Cultural Promotion Act promulgated in 1997 had a significant impact on the production and purpose of Ainu dictionaries. The dictionaries prior to 1997 functioned, predominantly, as records, which contributed to the increased visibility of Ainu populations inside and outside Japan in the immediate national interests of Japan, whereas the dictionaries published after 1997 are intended to enable the active use of Ainu language today. An important sub-point is that the post-1997 Ainu dictionaries rely heavily on dictionaries, word lists, and grammar books compiled before 1997, which have therefore come to support efforts to re-vitalize Ainu languages in the twenty-first century.

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“…Although the number of people working in agriculture has fallen since 1989, in 2006 such work still represented about one-fourth of the total employment in Poland. 5 The number of people working in agriculture was 15 per cent higher in Southeast Poland than in the country as a whole, and the majority of farms 4 For similar developments in other parts of the world, see Guneratne (2001), Van den berghe (1994), Hiwasaki (2000). were small -less than ten hectares -and privately owned (Haase 2002: 54).…”

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Scale and ethnicity in Southeast Poland: tourism in the European periphery1

Buzalka¹

2009

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Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaido and the Shaping of Ainu Identity

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Ethnic Tourism and Minority Identity: Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

Ethnic Tourism and Minority Identity: Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

Re-vitalizing an indigenous language: Dictionaries of Ainu languages in Japan, 1625–2013

Scale and ethnicity in Southeast Poland: tourism in the European periphery1

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